Nathan Prier, president of the Canadian Association of Professional Employees, one of the federal government’s largest unions, said earlier this week that Treasury Board president Shafqat Ali and the rest of the Carney cabinet must make regaining the trust of federal civil servants one of the Liberal government’s highest priorities.
Britons are the second most prolific swearers in the world, behind only the Americans, a study has found.
Profanity is commonplace in language globally and is often used to emphasise a point, accent a sentence, or as a form of stress and pain relief.
A new analysis of 20 English-speaking nations compared the frequency of swear words in the language and analysed almost two billion words on 1.8 million different websites.
An increasing number of Albertans are now aware of the risks associated with dependency on wind and solar generators. These naturally produce less power during periods of peak seasonal demand. (For example, Arctic winter storms.) Less well-known is another risk that is emerging as these intermittent generators become further integrated into our grids — loss of frequency control, caused by intermittent power generators — wind and solar — leading to blackouts.
Deterring a suffering loved one from receiving a lethal injection could earn you up to two years in prison and a €30,000 fine.
French MPs are preparing to vote on a law that would legalise euthanasia and assisted suicide. In the final days of the parliamentary debate, as the proposal’s provisions were reviewed, some of the most outrageous articles were discussed and, unfortunately, many were adopted.
For several days, the voices denouncing the text have been growing. The proposal that MPs are preparing to vote on will make France one of the most permissive countries in this area, alongside countries that have sunk into increasingly serious abuses of ‘assisted dying,’ such as Canada and Belgium.
Canadians say jobs and the economy are once again their biggest concern, for the first time since February ahead of the issue of relations with their southern neighbour, a new poll shows
The issue of jobs and the economy in mid-May surpassed concern about the U.S. president and Canada-U.S. relations, according to the latest polling report released by Nanos Research on May 20.
A mass shooting occurred in Fairmount Park in Philadelphia near Lemon Hill Drive, resulting in two deaths and at least nine injuries.
The shooting occurred around 10:30 p.m. during a car meetup. At least two of the victims were juveniles.
Police reported a large presence at the… pic.twitter.com/zM8Yl1YnKO— T_CAS videos (@tecas2000) May 27, 2025
An Ontario judge has approved a settlement in a class-action lawsuit that accused Loblaw Cos. Ltd. and its parent company George Weston Ltd. of engaging in an industry-wide scheme to fix the price of bread.
In a written decision, judge Ed Morgan says the $500-million settlement is excellent, fair and in the best interest of class members.
The settlement was reached last year and includes a combined $404-million to be paid by Loblaw and George Weston.
In the US execs would be doing hard time.
In the political cage match that America didn’t know it needed—2025 has delivered. On one side: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the self-anointed heroine of the progressive revolution, armed with Instagram reels, virtue signals, and a dogged resistance to anything resembling border enforcement. On the other: Tom Homan, the no-nonsense former ICE director turned Trump’s new immigration enforcer—armed with the law, federal authority, and a mandate from the American people.
The killing of George Floyd by a police officer in Minneapolis five years ago sparked a resurgence of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement. That summer, millions took to the streets in the name of racial justice as BLM protests spread from the US to Western Europe.
Many Torontonians are sick of anti-Israel protests that have gone too far. Some have been peaceful, but others have blockaded major intersections or blared hateful chants. Some have targeted Jews. Recently, a protester appeared to direct a smoke bomb towards diners at Jewish-owned Café Landwer. Toronto police took the unusual step of charging the suspect with mischief.
The incident was a reminder that police already have the laws they need to end the disorder when protests cross a line. There is simply no need for the new “bubble zone” bylaw that the City of Toronto council passed on Thursday in a 16-9 vote.
The problem has been getting the Police to act.
Yes there have been arrests but appearances suggest political meddling in enforcement.
The left is furious that the Trump administration is officially enforcing (effective date: June 25) the longstanding law that truck drivers must be proficient in English.
The left claims that you don’t need to speak English to drive; this must be bigotry against immigrants, or against Spanish speakers, or against the uneducated, or against certain ethnicities.
When did the devil disappear? The image of Satan persists, but mostly as kitsch. The few who believe in him are typically portrayed as unserious, even gauche. The prevailing view holds that progress has vanquished the superstitions of earlier, more fearful, eras. It matters little, apparently, that the twentieth century was the bloodiest in history.
Canada’s nightmarish opioid crisis has renewed calls for involuntary drug treatment. Does the government have a right to force users to get help?
As a teenager in Los Angeles, Marshall Smith earned a reputation as a party boy. He moved to British Columbia after high school and continued to drink throughout his twenties while working in the provincial corrections system, first as a guard and later in administrative roles. In 2001, he took a job doing municipal affairs with the provincial government, contributing to Vancouver’s bid for the 2010 Olympics. Then, one night in a club, he tried cocaine for the first time. He quickly grew addicted and also began using methamphetamine, a drug that provides raging, frenetic highs. Within months, his life and career crumbled. “I hung up my suit and tie and vanished into the streets,” he says.
“The designation of the AfD as an extremist party is a political, not a legal verdict. It is not a decision of the Supreme Court but of the internal intelligence services under the Ministry of the Interior led by Nancy Faeser, who made this decision days before she had to leave office after the defeat of the SPD. This happened on May 2nd, and the following week, with the election of Friedrich Merz as the new Chancellor, Faeser ceased to be Minister, so the political intentionality of this affair is evident. The report of the internal secret services was not sent to us beforehand, so we did not know what we were accused of, however, it was sent to several newspapers in order to generate a scandal. Now we have it and we have seen that these are public opinions, such as tweets or speeches, that is, there is nothing secret, and that they are also covered by freedom of speech; there is nothing criminal in those opinions. For example, I am mentioned in the report for tweeting “#Alice for Germany.“ That’s ridiculous. There is nothing extremist, there is truth and common sense.”
The FBI will launch new investigations into the 2023 discovery of a bag of cocaine at the White House during Joe Biden’s term, as well as into pipe bombs discovered at Democratic and Republican party headquarters before the 6 January 2021 Capitol riot by supporters of Donald Trump, and the leak of the supreme court’s draft opinion before the historic overturning of national abortion rights with the Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision that overturned Roe v Wade in 2022.
Dan Bongino, a rightwing podcaster turned deputy director of the FBI, made the announcement on X, where he said he had requested weekly briefings on any progress in looking into the old cases. The incidents have been popular talking points on America’s political right wing and among conspiracy theorists.
