If men should start out in jail, where should women start? Some say a psych ward. pic.twitter.com/ULjVSehK5G
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) June 20, 2025
Author: Blazingcatfur
What’s missing in Canada’s defence budget math
What does 2% of GDP for defence mean for Canada?
Compared to most NATO partners, Canada does not calculate its defence spending accurately, since it fails to include some defence-related components.
For instance, the RCMP budget along with the Canadian Coast Guard should be considered defence expenses and be included in the 2% calculations. Most NATO nations include police and coast guard expenses in their calculations of defence spending.
This is interesting Canada is not taking advantage of common NATO member budget expenditures in calculating the 2% spend requirement.
WTF?
No one cared when this No Kings protester got hit by a car.
This situation is nearly as dire as the one where the lesbian got farted on in Albertsons. pic.twitter.com/e1JnzZlyGa
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) June 22, 2025
AI Won’t Terminate Us. It Will Just Render Us Irrelevant.
The future of AI won’t resemble The Terminator. Don’t expect devastating explosions or murderous drones. There won’t be metal skeletons stomping on skulls or glowing red eyes scanning resistance fighters. The real takeover will be quieter, colder, more efficient, and less bloody — but in many ways, far more brutal.
It will come with a soft chime, a helpful tone, a perfectly phrased suggestion: “Would you like me to do that for you?”
And most of us will say yes.
Stephen Fry could do with a lesson in ‘radicalisation’
Stephen Fry has accused J.K. Rowling of being ‘inflammatory and contemptuous’, ‘mocking’ and adding to ‘a terribly distressing time for trans people’. Fry, who narrated the Harry Potter audiobooks, has damned their author for saying ‘cruel’ and ‘wrong’ things and for failing to ‘disavow some of the more revolting and truly horrible, destructive – violently destructive – things that people say’. He suspects that she’s been ‘radicalised by Terfs’, charged her with kicking up ‘a hornet’s nest of transphobia which has been entirely destructive’, and dismissed her as ‘a lost cause’.
Might I interrupt this lengthy damnatio memoriae to point out that Fry is supposed to be Rowling’s friend and to venture that, if she deserves to be rebuked for anything, it’s her godawful taste in friends. Fry, Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson. The woman is like flypaper for airheads, dilettantes, and abject ingrates.
More Canadians want to join the military, but enlisted members keep leaving
Interest has spiked in the Canadian military, with recruitment levels hitting their highest point in a decade. But as more people walk in the door, thousands of enlisted members are deciding to walk out.
Numbers obtained by Global News show the retention crisis worsened year over year, as Prime Minister Mark Carney who is attending the NATO summit in Brussels, vows to rebuild the Armed Forces and reduce Canada’s dependence on the U.S.
My guess is that the CAF are simply not Transgender friendly enough. They should just outright ban heterosexuals.
A day in London
All these things happened to me in London today
I paid nearly £30 for a train ticket to take me into London from a town just 30 miles away —on a Saturday
The first person I sat next to, I think from India, decided to have a FaceTime conversation with his friend on speakerphone…
— Matt Goodwin (@GoodwinMJ) June 21, 2025
This could also be Toronto
h/t Patti Jo
Former Nickelodeon Star JoJo Siwa Felt Pressured by LGBTQ Mob to Come Out as a Lesbian at 17
Jojo Siwa, the former Dance Moms star and pop sensation, says she came out as lesbian at 17-years-old after initially identifying sexually as a pansexual due, in part, from “pressure” from the LGBTQIAA+ community.
“When I came out at 17, I said, ‘I’m pansexual, because I don’t care [about gender].’ But then I kind of boxed myself in and I said, ‘I’m a lesbian.’ And I think I did that because of the pressure,” Siwa said in a recent interview with the Daily Mail.
Canada is facing a housing crisis. Could it take a page from Europe?
Slavica Salihbegovic’s family was growing. So she did what anyone living in Vienna would do: She asked the city for a bigger apartment.
“At that time, I was pregnant with my first kid,” she said. “I lived in a two-room apartment … it was an OK building, but it was small for us.”
Salihbegovic went to an online portal, entered her income and requirements, and was ranked alongside thousands of other residents. Soon, she was assigned a new apartment: a three-bedroom unit in a brand-new building, adjacent to Vienna’s Central Station.
We have subsidized housing. My guess is that Austria’s social housing has not been made stronger by diversity.
IT’S A WEINER! NY Times Slobbers All Over Alex Soros-Huma Abedin Wedding ‘Love Story’
Need more evidence to prove how much influence the Soros empire wields over the media? Then The New York Times’s, er, heart-throbbing excuse for a news item over crown prince Alex’s wedding to corrupt former Hillary Clinton aide and disgraced former Congressman Anthony Weiner’s ex-wife Huma Abedin could probably serve as Exhibit A.
Federal Transport Minister Freeland slams B.C. Ferries deal with Chinese company
B.C. Ferries has drawn the ire of federal Transport Minister Chrystia Freeland for its decision to contract a Chinese state-owned shipyard to build four new vessels for its passenger fleet.
Freeland also expressed concerns about security risks related to the contract.
In a letter to B.C.’s Transportation Minister Mike Farnworth released Friday afternoon, Freeland expressed her “great consternation and disappointment” with the ferry operator.
Guess she didn’t get her cut.
Shock Poll: 47% of Dems Demand a Third Party. So WHEN Will the Rebellion Begin?
Here’s a dirty little secret about the PR profession: The PR experts in private practice think the PR “experts” who work for politicians, political parties, and government agencies are a bunch of low-watt bulbs. There are exceptions, of course, but as a general rule, the most productive, outside-the-box creative, high-energy PR minds are exclusively in the private sector. The ones who accept government jobs, alas, tend to be lazy, bureaucratic, and full of roadblocks — and good Lord, forget about reaching ‘em after 5 p.m.!
GO HOME.
Undocumented students push for right to education, but Alberta noncommittal
Ariana Zapata’s favourite subject in school is social studies.
For the 13-year-old in Edmonton, this means lessons on historical societies, colonialism, how worldviews are developed and so on.
The eighth grader’s own worldview is still being built, but she has pillars in place: family, fight for what you believe in, don’t be too trusting and, critically, education is a right.
That’s why, when Zapata gets home from school every day, she passes on what she learned to her three younger siblings.
Iran orders closure of Strait of Hormuz — putting one-fifth of world’s oil supply at risk
Iran’s parliament has voted to close the Strait of Hormuz, the vital shipping channel through which around 20% of the world’s daily oil flows.
The move, which could block $1 billion in oil shipments per day, is likely to send oil prices soaring.
It will come into effect pending a final decision by Iran’s Supreme Council.
A Little Late Given He’s Dead … RCMP identifies mystery man in bomb-testing near Duncan before 1985 Air India explosion
BANTRY, Ireland — Police in British Columbia have finally identified the mysterious man who helped test a bomb on Vancouver Island a few weeks before the Air India bombing on June 23, 1985.
RCMP Assistant Commissioner David Teboul told Postmedia that the previously unidentified suspect in the mass murder case recently died without ever facing charges. He said he couldn’t release the name of the man due to privacy laws even though the suspect is now dead.